Inkaar (2013) - Movie Review

Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar is about the subject of sexual harassment. He brings Chitrangada Singh and Arjun Rampal as a main lead of the movie and extracts extraordinary performance from both of them. Although the story is not really new, but it has the power of gripping the viewers to glue their seats till the end. Let’s find out whether Sudhir Mishra has created a magic with his Inkaar or not.

Chitrangada Singh is playing Maya Luthra who is the director of an advertisement agency. She claims that the company’s CEO Rahul Varma has sexually harassed her hence she files a case against him.
Arjun Rampal is depicting the company's CEO in the movie. Inkaar then shows you narratives of both of the characters by means of a chain of flashbacks. The narrative of Rahul lets you see him as an advertisement expert who has done a lot to be on the top of the field. He meets Maya as a new comer in the industry. She belongs to a small town Solan and wants to bloom her identity in the world. Rahul makes his mind up to help her and they grow professionally. He trains Maya and lifts up her position in the company. Passed out by her counselor’s attention in her, she falls for Rahul and within a short while come close to each other. They in next to no time face problems leading for her to take off to a different continent. She comes back from USA after a long period of 7 yrs with a boyfriend and confirms the postion of National Creative Director in the same company. She gets attack of jealously, irritation, annoyance and she files a case of sexual harassment against the CEO.


It’s quite common to consider a man as a guilty in certain kind of sexual harassment cases. But, with Inkaar, Sudhir Mishra intensely shows the rear of such belief and gives a fascinating drama where every character is grey. Opposite sides of the offenses of obsession make you puzzled on which narrative to accept as true. Sudhir brings a suspense part in the first ten minutes but the developed fizzes out as the narrative sets up sorting out too fast Inkaar’s climax is against the movie as it produces a complete digression to the sexual harassment subject bounced through the cliches of Indian movies. A likely solution toward the structure case could have worked well. The movie is lengthy along with a long-drawn-out two parts story of the circumstances which continues right till the last part. Sudhir Mishra does not allow the love story breath moreover the violence of the offense also fails to leave an impact on the viewers. On the other hand, he seems successful in extracting the real performance from his all actors. Chitrangada Singh and Arjun Rampal have fully justified with their characters. They both are simply brilliant om their roles and also look good on the screen.

Shantanu Moitra’s composition is an important part of Inkaar and is extremely artistically cool, calm and collected. Without a doubt movie’s music completely goes with the movie. Overall, Inkaar has a crackling & gripping story, and dazzling performances that make it be worthy of watch.